I will answer, but let me start by pointing out that the money recently awarded was in fact for the operation of the SNOLAB facility over the next seven years. It was not capital investment. It was matched, in fact, by the province, to a substantial degree.
How do you set priorities? It's very difficult. I don't envy you in terms of the advice you're going to give the government. Many things come into this. You want Canada to be doing the things that are important in science and that will have a short-term benefit for the Canadian public in health and in areas where you clearly want to be a world leader in order to provide the appropriate support to a Canadian populace.
However, I think it's important for Canada to also be a leader in basic science in certain areas where it has natural advantages. Obviously, in SNOLAB we have a natural advantage. We should be building on that, because we can be a world leader in natural sciences as well.
I would point out that the people we educate in Ph.D. degrees, for example, in very basic sciences, go on to a wide variety of other occupations. We did a survey 10 years after the SNO experiment stopped taking data. We found that 75% of people educated in the process of doing work on the basic science experiment were in a wide variety of other jobs. Twenty-five per cent of them were in academic positions. I'm pleased to say that 35% of them were women, which is high for physics, and it's increasing.
The other 75% worked for J.P. Morgan, the government and medical research laboratories. Basically, they were trained in evidence-based decision-making, which is needed in all aspects of our society. We could attract them because we had things at the frontier of science. They were trained in such things, including the frontiers of technology. They have gone out into society and are making contributions across the spectrum.